By W M Campbell – 12th January 2011 (Retired HSE Group Auditor, Shell International)
Regulatory Failures
As the queue begins to form of those who would sue BP and others for the failures that caused Deepwater Horizon, it appears, from the early release of the findings of the Presidential Commission published last week, that it was the negligence of multiple parties that caused the multiple failures. Negligence also extends to the present and previous US Government administrations, their agencies and members of Congress. To put the Commission Report in context we need to go back in time to 1982, and take in some history.